The Secret Life of Crowdfunding
By Adam J. Bock and Denis Frydrych
Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...
Lifelong Learning with ESSEC Business School
The demand for new approaches to learning has been on a steady rise after the tumultuous past few years. The global landscape has changed...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
What if Your Business Model Was to Blame for Your Lack of Innovativeness!
By Fernanda Arreola, Raphaël Maucuer and Adrien Terlier
Innovation is a crucial driver of success for organizations. It is a tool for nurturing a competitive...
Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour
By Avi Liran
While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate Resilient Businesses
By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, H. James Wilson, and Giju Mathew
Last summer’s heatwave in the UK and other European countries put a significant...
Business When Your Country Is At War: Interview with Oleksii Tsymbal, Chief Innovation Officer...
With the appalling news of war and destruction that is coming out of Ukraine, it is hard to believe that Ukrainian companies could continue...
Where Does Resilience Come From? It’s Your Progress in Digital Transformation, Especially in Times...
By Howard Yu and Shan Jialu
The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first
Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...
How to Build a Resilient Organisation
Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School
As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
What Do Bosses Do Today? Rethinking this still-essential role for a new world
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
Craftsmanship Meets Technology: A Conversation with Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen
In the new IWC Manufacturing Center, IWC Schaffhausen combines traditional craftsmanship with sophisticated technology to produce high-quality timepieces like the iconic Pilot’s Watches or...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused
By Mairead Brady
Why do we use Zoom and not Slack or Skype? Post photos with Instagram and not Kodak? And why do we watch Netflix...
Tailoring the Strategy Function for Success
By Jo Whitehead, Felix Barber and Rebecca Homkes
Enterprises face a host of challenges today, including digital disruption and changing global trade patterns. In such...
A Focus on the Relationship between AI and Humans
An Introduction to the Special Report on AI and Humans by AiTH, NUS Business School
By David De Cremer
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) promises...
The Service Revolution, Intelligent Automation and Service Robots
By Jochen Wirtz, Werner H. Kunz and Stefanie Paluch
Are there parallels between the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century and the changes now being wrought on twenty-first-century society...
AIM for the New Frontiers of Work
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman and Michael Chaskalson
Earlier articles in this series have introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored how the...
Going Up! Giving a lift to mobility in India
Interview with Gilco Global's Aman Moudgil and Sh. Deepak Moudgil
Some six years ago Indian mobility solutions company Gilco Global was born out of an...
How European Companies Are Protecting Themselves From Cyber Threats
By Michael Crandell
The Modern European Threat Landscape
In the fall of 2022, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its annual report covering the...
The Biases That Derail Open Innovation Initiatives
By Oguz A. Acar
Everyone loves an innovative idea, until they do not. According to Oguz Acar, “Idea novelty promotes acceptance up to a point;...
Pivot or Perish: Modern Enterprise Networks Will Drive the Digital Future in Europe
By Jefferson Wang, Michele Marrone, and Swati Vyas
As Europe sets out to deliver on its second digital agenda, companies will need to equip themselves...
Strategic Responses To Neo-Populism
By Dan Prud’homme, Max von Zedtwitz, and Fernanda Arreola
The rise of Neo-populism presents risks to multi-national corporations in Western markets. The authors outline practical strategies corporations...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
Hidden Needs Analysis: Creating Breakthrough Products
An Interview with Keith Goffin
The clear identification of customer needs is a fundamental part of successful innovation and most organizations aim to develop a...
Crisis? What Crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann, and Philippe Roussière
While in practice, it takes time for a tech revolution to unfold, multiple signs show the AI...
Relationship-Building with Disabled Entrepreneurs in the Context of Research
By Julien Billion and Claire Doussard
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are not really visible in the intellectual, political, and economic spheres. This makes it difficult to...
The World Business Forum New York
By Henrietta Morris “We have to unlearn what we think we know about leadership.” – Linda Hill This was the message, in this instance boldly stated
Three Steps to Getting on Track in the Race to Net Zero
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra and Monique de Ritter
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow saw a welcome spate of...
Leading as a Coach: Advancing Career, Transforming Life
An Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Nowicka Mook, Executive Director and CEO, ICF
A professional coaching program has proven to be a powerful catalyst for helping...
TableTop and Covid19 – It’s No Longer An Easy Game!
By Uwe Eickert and Boris Liedtke
The raging pandemic has swiftly shaken up many business models around the globe thereby creating a number of instant...
Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer
David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
The End of Competitive Advantage
By Rita McGrath
Businesses are competing in increasingly volatile and uncertain global situations. Below, Rita McGrath suggests that stability, not change, is the state that...
Part B: Designing Organisational Ecosystems and Overcoming Barriers to Implementation
By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa
In the second of a two-part series on aligning organisational ecosystems to be fit for purpose and high-performing, this...
All Pulling Together: Smartsheet Ramps up the Team Power
Interview with Sarfraz Ali of Smartsheet
In this interview, Smartsheet EMEA VP and General Manager Sarfraz Ali sets out how, with its revamped UI and...
The Leader’s Checklist
By Michael Useem
The Leader’s Checklist comprises fifteen mission-critical, time-tested leadership principles that vary surprisingly little among companies or countries. Taken together, they constitute a...
Intentional Money: Strategies for Sustainable Finance
By Vanina Farber, María Helena Jaén and Patrick Reichert
The logic of sustainable finance is simple; tell me where you put your money, and I...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
The Pitfalls of Flaunting your Social Status
By Alixandra Barasch, Shalena Srna, and Deborah Small
Ditch the luxury logos if you want to be seen as a cooperative teamplayer.
In life, impressions matter....
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values
Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG
Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
Interviewing Elites and Guanxi in China
By Dr Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey and Jonathan V. Beaverstock
With China’s growing influence, Chinese leadership is attracting more limelight from around the world....
Designing Luxury Experience
By Vadim Grigorian and Francine Espinoza Petersen
In luxury brand management, experiences are essential. However, most of what we know about designing customer experiences originates...
How to Make Sense from and with AI?
By Imène Brigui
As a consequence of Hyperconnectivity, tremendous growth of iOT and mobile technology expansion, data is becoming highly accessible to companies : large,...
Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy
By David de Cremer
Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín
How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...
Generate Engagement And Build High Performing Teams With Caring, Clarity, Context, And More
By Brian Hartzer
Over the past two decades, while leading or overseeing dozens of businesses across three continents, I’ve grappled with the question of what...
Promise and Challenge: AI in the Trade Finance Industry
Interview with Graham Bright, Head of Compliance and Operations, Euro Exim Bank
Technology is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s moving fast –...
Is PayPal’s Welcoming of Bitcoin the Best Ever Development For The Cryptocurrency?
It was recently announced that PayPal has decided to begin accepting cryptocurrency payments, and this could be the best news for bitcoin and other...
Free Flow of Data: What the Corporate World Can Learn from Science
By Andreas Deppeler
It is often said that the digital economy runs on data. Digital technologies have transformed the economy and society – and data...
The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet
By Ray Schroeder
We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
Why Leaders Fail
By Patrick R. Dailey
“All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trap door, falls, and then derails. This article presents 21st century challenges—corporate...